There are in this group of interpretations six of the best known ideal conceptions of womanhood in art; Venus de Milo, Eve, Mona Lisa, Beatrice Cenci, Madonna of the chair and the Sistine Madonna.
[*] “Any good book that celebrates good art is worth while, so Miss Spalding’s book is welcome.”
| + | Critic. 47: 572. D. ‘05. 15w. |
[*] “The text is intended neither for artists nor students of painting, but for the ordinary observer who is interested merely in the moral significance of the picture, caring nothing for its history or technique. Such criticism leans inevitably towards the fanciful and the sentimental, but it doubtless appeals to a certain class of readers.”
| + — | Dial. 39: 389. D. 1, ‘05. 130w. | |
| * | + | Ind. 59: 1376. D. 14, ‘05. 40w. |
| * | Int. Studio. 27: sup. 31. D. ‘05. 40w. | |
| * | — | Nation. 81: 449. N. 30, ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “The book is of the popular sort—full of elemental, moving impressions but marred by insufficient historical and critical reading.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 796. N. 25, ‘05. 240w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 751. D. ‘05. 80w. |
Sparks, Edwin Erle. Men who made the nation. $1. Macmillan.
The history of the United States from 1760 to 1865 is given biographically in an account of the lives and labors of Benjamin Franklin, Samuel and John Adams, Robert Morris, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Jefferson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and finally Abraham Lincoln.
“On the whole, thanks to the author’s lively style, we get, in a very small compass, a better history than many a historian with a more ambitious method might have produced.”